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Abaco m Italian (Rare)Variant of
Abacucco. It concides with the Italian word for
abacus, a calculating tool that was in use in the ancient Near East, Europe, China, and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system.
Absalon m Danish (Rare), Faroese, Norwegian (Rare), Polish, Gascon, French (Archaic), French (Quebec, Archaic), Haitian CreolePolish, French, Gascon, Haitian Creole, Danish, Faroese and Norwegian form of
Absalom.
Achillea f ItalianFeminine form of
Achille. It is also the botanical name of the genus of flowering plants (Yarrow).
Achiropita f Italian (Rare)Taken from the title of the Virgin Mary
Maria Santissima Achiropita, this name is typically and predominantly found in the province of Cosenza, in the Calabria region in Southern Italy.
Ada f German, Biblical German, Croatian (Rare), Galician, Slovene, Polish, Kashubian, Hungarian, Spanish, Biblical SpanishGerman, Croatian, Galician, Slovene, Hungarian, Polish, Kashubian and Spanish form of
Adah.
Adeltraud f GermanDerived from the Germanic elements
adal "noble" and
þruþ "strength".
Aden m RomanshRomansh form of
Adam, traditionally found in central Grisons.
Adiuto m Italian (Rare)From the Latin
adiutus meaning "help", in this case referring to divine assistance in a Christian context. ... [
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Ado m Germanic, ItalianOriginally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element
adal meaning "noble". This was the name of a 9th-century Frankish saint, an archbishop of Vienne in Lotharingia... [
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Agnello m ItalianFrom Italian
agnello "lamb", given either as a nickname for a meek and mild person or as a personal name, which was popular because the lamb led to the slaughter was a symbol of the suffering innocence of Christ.
Ago m German (Rare, Archaic)In the case of the most famous bearer of the name, the German diplomat Ago von Maltzan, it is a nickname based on the initials of his three given names
Adolf Georg Otto.
Aica f ItalianFrom the Germanic element
ag, possibly meaning "edge" or "sharp".
Aïda f FrenchIn former times, this name was a diminutive of
Adélaïde. Nowadays, however, it is usually used as the Gallicized form of
Aida.
Aimone m ItalianItalian form of
Haimo. This name has been often used by members of the House Savoy.
Aita f RomanshRomansh variant of
Agata, traditionally found in the Engadine valley.
Alagia f Medieval Italian, Italian (Archaic)Contracted form of
Adelagia. The Genoese noblewoman Alàgia dei Fieschi, who Dante praises in his 'Purgatorio' (c.1318), was a niece of Pope Adrian V and the wife of Dante's friend Moroello III Malaspina.
Albéric m FrenchFrench form of
Alberich. A known bearer of this name was the French composer Albéric Magnard (1865-1914).
Aldemar m Germanic, Dutch, GermanDerived from Gothic
alds (
alt in Old High German) "old" combined with Old High German
mâri "famous". The name might also be a metathesis of
Adalmar.
Aliaume m FrenchFrench form of
Adalhelm. Previously a name that had gone out of fashion after the Middle Ages, but it has enjoyed a modest revival in France since the late '80s (which reached its peak in 1996).
Alidor m French (Rare)An old and obscure French given name of unknown meaning, which may possibly ultimately be of Occitan origin (compare
Aliénor) or even Basque origin. It seems that it was mostly used in the 19th century, not just in France but also in (the French-speaking part of) Belgium and the Canadian province Quebec... [
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Alise f French (Archaic)Local French form of
Alice recorded up to the 1700s in the French Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region and the Canton of Châtenois in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Lorraine.
Aloïse f FrenchFeminine form of
Aloïs. Aloïse Corbaz (1886-1964) was a Swiss outsider artist.
Alraune f Literature, German (Rare)Variant of
Alruna, also coinciding with the German word for "mandrake". This is the name of the title character in the novel 'Alraune' (1911) by Hanns Heinz Ewers.
Alto m Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, German, DutchDirectly taken from Latin
altus meaning "to raise, to make high, to elevate". As a musical term it refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range.... [
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Amadea f Late Roman, German, Italian, Sicilian, Hungarian, Galician, Polish, SloveneLate Roman and German feminine form of
Amadeus, Italian and Galician feminine form of
Amadeo, Sicilian feminine form of
Amadeu, Hungarian and Polish feminine form of
Amadeusz and Slovene variant of
Amadeja.